I just put up a new photo album covering our 2010 beach trip. I tried my hand at a panoramic photo again, now that I know what I’m doing a little better. I got much better results than I did with my Hawai’i panoramics five years ago. The main thing I had to learn was to take one picture in auto mode, then put the camera in fully-manual mode (duplicating the settings from auto mode) before taking the pictures you intend to stitch. This keeps the camera from being darker when you’re looking at the sun and lighter when you’re looking away, so that everything can be stitched seamlessly. It seems obvious once you know it, but it didn’t occur to me for a while. On the software side, I used the completely free Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor to stitch the panoramic together, and it worked quite well (thanks for the tip, Jonah). Like magic, really.
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New photo album: beach trip 2010 |
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Written by on Monday, June 28, 2010 at 11:42 pm (EDT) Tagged as: family photos vacation |
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June 29, 9:31 am
I’m sure your camera must have a panoramic mode; I know that mine does (I think most prosumer cameras have it). Once put in this mode, you can specify which direction you’ll be taking the panorama, and it will automatically handle keeping the settings consistent between shots. It even shows you a partial preview of the previous shot, so you can better align the next shot! It’s a very helpful setting.
Nothing beats a properly set-up tripod, though. Too bad I never take my tripod along when hiking...